Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Nandi Chinna, Renee Pettitt-Schipp, Daniel Hansen and Luke Sweedman, commissioned in 2019 for New Shoots WA
The first ever national Poetry Month kicks off 1 August with an exciting line-up of ambassadors sharing their personal reflections
The 2021 Poetry Month …
As if you needed an excuse to hit the couch and binge watch movies during lock down, Anthony Mullins book BEYOND THE HERO’S JOURNEY, if nothing else, gives you a list of notable films you should watch. …
“The serenity for which he laboured was shattered as he realised the little time he had in life to read so much”.
What audacity to begin a film with a quote from John Edward William’s resurrected classic novel, …
Universal Pictures on behalf of Warner Bros. have launched The Dune Ticket Lottery – an online hub for fans to enter the ultimate game of chance, registering for their opportunity to be the first in the country to witness …
Allusions, evocations, attributions and direct discussions of Charles Dickens’ works run through Joan Silber’s compulsively readable SECRETS OF HAPPINESS, a novel of intoxicating interconnecting and interlocking lives full of twists, great expectations and mutual friends.
Half a dozen narrators take …
It’s a hoot.
Quentin Tarantino’s novel, ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD is a guilt edged pleasure, a big, broad, bustling back story plus hints and allegations that further the accidents and incidents of his classic Oscar winning movie, Once …
A little bit To Sir With Love, a little bit Wake in Fright, THE GRIZZLIES is the inspiring true story of first-year teacher Russ Sheppard, who takes a temporary assignment to teach at a high school in Kugluktuk, a small …
THE SHUT INS seems a timely title in this age of lock-down.
Rather than a novel about the consequences of a contagion, Katherine Brabon’s book concerns the phenomenon coined hikikomori in Japan.
Hikikomori is the collective term of those who …
She’s bark!
Winner of the 2020 State Library of NSW Emerging Children’s Author Award, Victoria Mackinlay has a new bark, I mean book. It’s called THE BARK BOOK
Like her previous book, the ripper Ribbit Rabbit Robot, THE BARK BOOK …
“Just a raging, brilliant, shitstorm of a book!” says a minor character in Jason Mott’s HELL OF A BOOK.
They got that right!
HELL OF A BOOK is a helluva book, a crazy, curly, profane, profound and provocative book, a …